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Does anyone know how i can emulate the safety triangle with the stats i have on a monthly basis?
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Do you mean Heinrich’s Accident Triangle?
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Originally Posted by: johnwatt  Do you mean Heinrich’s Accident Triangle?
If so, what exactly do you mean by 'emulate'?
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Why? Heinrich's triangle is a retrospective based upon assumptions from a broad span of recorded data not a crystal ball.
Personally I find this approach focuses a business in to reporting and investigating trivia in the mistaken belief they are being proactive by having lots of near miss reports and therefore will never have a fatality.
Bit like the concept of Zero Harm - set a business a target to report 20 near miss a month and it will be delivered, meantime what should be acted upon is over looked as targets are chased.
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Why? Heinrich's triangle is a retrospective based upon assumptions from a broad span of recorded data not a crystal ball.
Personally I find this approach focuses a business in to reporting and investigating trivia in the mistaken belief they are being proactive by having lots of near miss reports and therefore will never have a fatality.
Bit like the concept of Zero Harm - set a business a target to report 20 near miss a month and it will be delivered, meantime what should be acted upon is over looked as targets are chased.
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The 'triangle' has very different shapes depending on the hazard. For example, the ratios of no injury: minor burn: lost time: fatality for electricity, compared to use of hand tools.
You need to decide what value to data will give you/the organisation before deciding how much effort to put into collecting and analysing it. In my expereince, the main value is to help reporting and then investigations of minor events where there is real potential for something much worse. One simple rule of thumb is - how much 'energy' was involved, and what damage to people and property could it cause?
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Can't see why you would want to, but you could use excel.
Draw top triangle and lower trapeziums, set colour of choice for each and to fill. also set transparency to say 50%. Position shapes so there is a cell directly behind each shape. in these cells put cell references to your data.
Chris
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Thank you all for your replies, I am now thinking of a different way to report Accidents (Including minors), incidents and Near Miss data. I inherited a system that has no national or comparative data. Can anyone think or share what they would do in a manufacturing sector? Thanks
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